Chen Le and his entourage walked to the gate of Daoling Villa, where the servants and guards of the Zhang family were already waiting.

Zhang Bangchang ordered more than a dozen people, and was just about to go out with Chen Le, when he suddenly saw a person stumbling in from outside the villa, and as soon as this person entered the gate of the villa, he shouted loudly: "Master of the family, it's not good, the Shanyi people are coming to grab the ore again!" ”

Shanyi people? Chen Le frowned and looked at Zhang Bangchang, only to see Zhang Bangchang's face change in an instant, and he beat his chest and said: "These bastards, the ore can't be eaten, what are you doing when you have nothing to do!" ”

Chen Le wondered, and after some inquiry, he learned that there was an ancient race in the Daoling Mountain, called the Shanyi people, who lived in the form of a tribe, usually hunting for a living, and basically did not participate in the affairs of the outside world, even if the world was turbulent and the dynasty changed, they were indifferent, and they just lived a leisurely life in the mountains.

Because this Shanyi people rarely go down the mountain, and never cause trouble, so whether it is the Great Xu Dynasty, or the later Qi State is mainly pacified, the Shanyi people are not opposed to the appeasement of the imperial court, in short, you send something to me I will accept it, if you show off your might, I will drive you down the mountain, you want to beat me, I will hide in the vast mountains, in short, the court also has no good way to take these Shanyi people, but fortunately, they do not cause trouble, so they will turn a blind eye and let them exist.

But since the Zhang family rose in Daoling Mountain and discovered the veins of colored light stone from the mountains, it made the Shanyi people very unhappy.

Mining needs people, tools and vehicles, and the sound of transporting ore is very loud, Shanyi people feel that this affects their lives, so they came to negotiate with the Zhang family, originally this mountain is not Shanyi people, the Zhang family has no need to take care of them, but the Zhang family has several generations of family owners have held the attitude of valuing harmony, and give some food items to the Shanyi people every year, so it is also safe, but in recent years, even if the Shanyi people have accepted the gift of the Zhang family, they still have nothing to do to harass the Zhang family's mineral veins and rob some ores. It was useless for them to take the ore, and after robbing it, they had to go back to the Zhang family and exchange these ores for some materials, which made the Zhang family cry and laugh and were very helpless.

The Shanyi people are good at fighting, especially skilled in bows and arrows, even if the army of the imperial court fights them in the mountains, they will suffer, not to mention the 1,800 private troops of the Zhang family, so the Zhang family has been enduring it in the past few years, anyway, the Zhang family's business does not completely rely on these ore veins, so they don't care too much about taking a loss.

After listening to Zhang Bangchang's narration, Chen Le and Zeng Xihua glanced at each other, frowned, and said: "This Shanyi people should be simple in nature, otherwise it would be impossible for them to be safe and sound before, and it seems that they have no ambitions, otherwise they would have gone down the mountain to rob them, but this matter is really strange at the moment." ”

Zhang Bangchang said hatefully on the side: "That's how it can be angry, although they never hurt people, they just robbed things, but they robbed my Zhang family's things, and when they turned around, they exchanged items with my Zhang family, where is there such a reason in the world!" ”

The corners of Chen Le's mouth twitched, and he shook his head, and suddenly his heart was extremely interested in this Shanyi people.

At this time, Zhang Cang had already led a group of Zhang's family members out, and after listening to the mine guards who came to report, he was immediately furious and shouted: "Come here, order 300 soldiers to go up the mountain with me." ”

Chen Le stepped forward at this moment, and as soon as Zhang Cang saw him, he immediately arched his hand and said, "Let Master Xiao see the joke." ”

"It's okay, I also heard Brother Bangchang say about this Shanyi people just now, I am curious, I will go up the mountain with the head of the Zhang family in a while!"

"Ah, how can this make this group of Shanyi people barbaric and unreasonable, rude, in case Master Xiao is hurt, the Zhang family is just to blame!" Zhang Cang said hurriedly.

Chen Le shook his head: "The head of the Zhang family doesn't need to say much, I have made up my mind, so let's go up the mountain with the head of the Zhang family to see these Shanyi people." ”

Zhang Cang heard Chen Le's words categorically, and he was helpless, and after hundreds of soldiers were gathered, he led everyone out of the village and went straight to the Daoling Mountain.

The knife ordered the mountain to stretch for thousands of miles, but the location of Zhang's family was in the middle, riding along the mountain road until the horse could not be walked, and everyone walked up the mountain together.

The three hundred private troops of the Zhang family all carried bows and arrows, and the weapons were nothing more than swords and guns, but the length was uneven, and at a glance they knew that they were patchwork things, which were very different from the standard weapons of the regular army.

The Zhangjia color stone vein is not very deep into the mountain, about half an hour or so, you can see a large bare place from afar, there are many mines outside this place, there are many Zhangjia guards and workers standing in front of the mine door and looking at the mountain road.

"The head of the house is here!" Someone shouted.

"It's really the head of the family, I didn't expect the head of the family to be in the villa!" Someone started to get excited.

Zhang Cang's face sank like water, and he led the team forward.

"Where are the Shanyi people?" Zhang Cang said to the children of the Zhang family who trotted forward.

This disciple of the Zhang family is obviously the steward of the ore veins here, and when he heard this, he immediately lowered his head and said in shame: "After snatching the colored light stone, they ran away, it seems that they went to Tianlongzhai!" ”

Zhang Cang immediately frowned when he heard this, Tianlong Village is a big village, not far from the veins here, but it is not close.

"It turned out to be Tianlong Village, could it be that it was the leader of Tianlong Village who took the lead in grabbing the ore this time?" Zhang Cang asked.

"There is the leader of Tianlong Village, but it doesn't seem to be the leader of him, the two elders of the Shanyi people are the leaders, by the way, there is also a well-dressed Shanyi people!" This Zhang family disciple said without thinking.

Zhang Cang suddenly gasped when he heard this, in the past, people from various villages came to grab stones, but this time there were actually two elders from the Shanyi tribe...... It seems that this time it is unusual!

"How much ore was robbed?" Zhang Cang's face sank like water.

"There are a lot of people here this time, and they snatched most of the ore that has been mined, and the two elders also said that let our Zhang family go directly to Tianlong Village to talk to them." The children of the Zhang family said in a low voice.

At this time, Chen Le also noticed that something was unusual, Zhang Bangchang on the side hurriedly explained, and after listening to it, Chen Le frowned, and he was quite puzzled in his heart.

Zhang Cang glanced around, thought for a moment and said, "Go to Tianlong Village, I will come in person this time to see what their Shanyi people have to say." ”

The group turned around and walked in the direction of Tianlong Village, and after more than half an hour, Chen Le finally saw a big village in front of him.

This Dazhai is very large, built on a half-mountain, all around are piled up with stones, there is a layer of wooden fence inside the stone, all kinds of houses in Dazhai are uneven, there are stone houses, there are also wooden buildings, but in general there is no problem to accommodate hundreds of people.

Chen Le squinted at Dazhai, and at this moment, the gate of Dazhai slowly opened, and a group of people came out of it.